PERC Policy Director Hannah Downey and Senator Steve Daines (MT) join Representative Dan Newhouse (WA), chairman of the Congressional Western Caucus, on his podcast A Voice for Rural America to discuss conservation policy in the rural West. The group discusses the importance of locally-led and voluntary conservation efforts and also dig into the recently released Western Conservation Principles, an alternative to President Biden’s America the Beautiful initiative.
Hannah Downey is the policy director at PERC, helping to bring PERC ideas to the policy world.
If the courts and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service can agree, then the regulatory pendulum might finally come to a stop.
This academic paper examines how popular culture, legal frameworks, and conservation science intersect to shape wildlife policy.
For American Prairie and other western ranchers, permit certainty would mean that decades-old grazing privileges on federal land would be honored as valid property rights.